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One thousand four hundred and twenty-fourth day. The Ukrainian delegation arrived in the United States; heat supply was almost completely restored in Kyiv
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The Ukrainian delegation arrived for negotiations in the USA
The Ukrainian delegation arrived in the United States for a new round of negotiations on a peace agreement. “A meeting is planned with Steven Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Daniel Driscoll,” said Kirill Budanov, head of the office of the President of Ukraine participating in the negotiations. “Ukraine needs a fair world. We work for results,” he added.
The delegation also includes the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Rustem Umerov and the head of the parliamentary faction of the Servant of the People party David Arakhamia. “We are working with our American partners to further advance the peace process. We will continue to work to achieve a just and sustainable peace, as well as guarantees of security for Ukraine and agree on the next steps,” Umerov wrote in his Telegram channel.
At the end of 2025, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky met with US President Donald Trump in Florida to finalize the peace plan. Following the meeting, Trump announced “significant progress” and Zelensky announced 90% agreement on the 20 points of the plan. However, key issues of the territory and management of the Zaporozhye NPP remain unresolved.
Ukraine
The mayor of Kyiv said that heating has been restored in almost all houses in the city. Zelensky doubted this
The mayor of Kiev, Vitaliy Klitschko, said that utility services managed to restore heat supply to almost all houses left without heating after the Russian attack on critical infrastructure on January 9. According to Klitschko, as of the morning of January 17, only about 50 houses remained without heat out of 6,000 that were left without heating after the Russian strikes.
In an interview with Reuters, which was published on January 16, Klitschko called the energy crisis the most difficult problem facing the capital in almost four years of the great war. “For the first time in the history of our city, in such severe frosts, most of the city was left without heating and with a huge shortage of electricity,” Klitschko said. He also noted that Kyiv now has only about half of the electricity that the city needs. Klitschko again called on those residents who have such an opportunity to temporarily leave the city in order to reduce the load on the energy system. “This winter will be difficult, but we are doing everything possible and impossible,” Klitschko said.
President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, in turn, on January 17, at a conference call dedicated to the energy supply situation, ordered to separately deal with houses in Kiev, which are still left without heating. “Unfortunately, there are differences in reports from the city and government levels, even on the number of such houses,” Zelensky said, adding that “the Ministry of Energy, all central authorities should get involved as much as possible to help people.”
Russian troops continue to strike energy infrastructure facilities. In particular, Zelensky noted, as a result of the strike on the night of January 17 in the Kyiv region, there were interruptions in the supply of electricity in Gostomel, Bucha and Irpen. The energy company DTEK reported that due to the overnight Russian attack, 56 thousand households were left without electricity in the Buchansky district of the Kyiv region. Restoration work is underway, but “the situation is complicated by frost,” DTEK said .
Frosts in most parts of Ukraine, according to the forecast of the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center, will continue in the coming days. In the Kyiv region, -20 is expected at night.
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Vladimir (Kiev) . I will soon be in my fifth year without using the Russian language (switched completely to Ukrainian on February 24, 2022), but I will make an exception to convey my point of view to you.
Unfortunately, you publish here too many letters from people from Ukraine of an “all-disastrous” nature. And it seems that in Ukraine everyone is ready to surrender and sign any peace treaty at any cost. This is wrong.
Ukrainians are tired, but the majority are not going to give up. We would reluctantly accept a ceasefire on the existing front line. Surrender (withdrawal of our troops from unoccupied territories, limiting the size of the army, imposing Russian on us as a second state language, lack of real security guarantees) - no.
Anticipating the question “why not in the trenches”: I’m writing from the dugout, using Starlink. In the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from 02/25/2022.
It’s hard for us, but we still have enough strength to defend our homeland, and no one here is going to give up.